Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-11-09
CARLISLEON DEMOCRACY.

the October number of the Forum
which lately appeared. The article
is an indirect reply to Governor Fora
ker's recent irrational utteranct S.
Among the reasons Mr.. Carlisle gives
why the democratic party should be re-
tanned in power, are the following:
Much has already been done during
the present administration to reclaim
lands conditionally granted tn railroads
| and other corporations, TO annul fraud
| ulent entries. TO prevent unlawful en-
closures and to protect the timbers and
minerals upon the public domain; but
the work is still incomplete, and it will
require additional legislation and con-
slant vigilance upon the part of those
charged with the administration of the
laws to prevent the improper appropri-
alton of large part of the most valua-
bic territory belonging TO the govern
ment. In order to do this the cooper
alton of the legislative and executive
departments is absolutely necessary and
past experience has shown that this CO.
could not be secured until after demo-
cratic administration was inaugurated.
The foundations of the existing sys-
tenn, under which immense landed es-
tates have been acquired by foreign and
domestic corporations and syndicateS,
were laid by the republican party, and
the fraudulent practices which have de-
spoiled the public domain of its most
fertile and valuable sections were begun
and continued while republican officials
alone were charged with the duty of EN-
forcing the laws and protecting the iu-
terest of the government and people.
Even now, when the magnitude of
the evil is almost universally recognized,
the demand for immediate reform is ur-
gently pressed by the homeless labor of
the country. the republican senate Ell
Their refuses to act at all, or proceeds
slowly and reluctantly to the considera-
ton of the subject. On the other hand,
the democratic house has been earnest
and active in its efforts to secure such
changes in the laws as will dedicate the
public lands to actual settlers under the
| homestead law, and has even gone so
| far as to amend the rules in order to
give such measures preference over 9TH
er business"
Another most important question,
Mr.. Carlisle holds, is the reduction of
the revenue and taxation. He says:
The only debatable question is, in
what manner shall the revenue and tax
alton be reduced? Upon this question
the two political parties are divided, al.
though there are some republicans who
are inclined to take the democratic view
and democrats who favor the republic
can policy. 1t is clear that it is possible
to reduce taxation to certain extent
without reducing the revenue. The rates
of taxation upon imported goods might
be made so high that all importations
would cease, and the government would
thus be prevented from collecting any
revenue whatever from that source, but
this would not diminish taxation upon
the people. On the contrary, it would
greatly increase their burdens; but they
would be compelled to pay the whole
tribute to the domestic producer of du-
table goods, instead of paying a part
oft to the government, as they do now. =
Mr.. Carlisle thinks the democratic
plan the best. He says:
ITO reduce both revenue and taxa
ton at the same time is the problem
now presented, and the true democratic
solution is to abolish as far as practical
bic the taxes on the actual necessities
of life and OH the raw materials used in
| their production, and to revise, simplify
and i'll proper cases reduce the duties on
the other articles embraced in the tariff
schedules. The prime object should be
to provide a sufficient revenue for the
support of the government at the least
possible expense and convenience to the
people who pay the taxes, and to i'm
pose the heaviest burdens upon those
who consume only the common neces-
saries of life. The republican solution
is to repeal all internal tax on whisky.
beer and manufactured tobacco and re-
tain high rate of TAXATION OH the food
and fuel and clothing Of the people, and
on the building materials, implements
of labor"
Mr.. Carlisle thus refutes one of the
standing arguments of the protection
lists.
1.-The statement constantly made that
the democratic party, if it had the pow
er, would at once reduce the rates of
duty to such degree as to give the pro-
ducts of foreign labor an advantage in
our own markets, is as grOundless as
the numerous other false predictions
| Nx-lfh WI al
twenty years by republican orators and
newspapers, and it has been success
fully used to alarm the laborIng classes
and prevent from opposing system of
taxation which, while it does not in
crease the amount of their wages, great
| ~ dimlnISheS their purchasing power
Every well informed man knows that
any goods which would enable the gov
eminent 20 realise the amount OF reve-
nue. it will be compelled TO raise from
that source would much more than COM
pensate for the difference between the
cost of labor here and in other manu-
featuring countries"
lie concludes with . word for free
ships.
The democratic party has always
been the friend Of the navy and the mer-
chant marine, and So long as il remain
ed in power the American dag was dis
played on every sea and in every COM
mercial port. Seventy-fve years ago,
when the republic was in its infancy,
our ships of war won imperishRble re-
nOwn in the conflict with Great Britain,
the boasted mistress of the seas. and up
to the beginning of the late civil war
more than three-fourths of our foreign
commerce was carried in our own YES
sells Now after twpntv-fOur vaorS Of
republican domination, we have no navy
establishment worthy the name, and
scarcely more than One-seVenth part of
our foreign carrying trade is done by
American ships. Free ships and lib
eral laws for the regulation of trades.